Simone Leiber

Simone Leiber is a Professor of Political Science with a focus on Social Policy at the Institute for Social Work and Social Policy of the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2017. Previously, she held a professorship at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf (2010-2017) and served as Deputy Dean for Research at Hochschule Düsseldorf (2012-2016). Her research spans comparative welfare state analysis, Europeanization of care policies, and labor market intermediaries in transnational care arrangements.

• Education: PhD in Political Science from Heidelberg University (2004).
• Current Projects: Leading research on social state reform and global long-term care dynamics in a DFG-funded collaborative research center.
• Publications: Over 10 peer-reviewed articles since 2004, including a 2023 edited volume on political intervention in social work.